In recent weeks, Senator Judd Gregg, a New Hampshire Republican, has been trying to attach an even more restrictive proposal, which would cancel the program, to a number of appropriations bills, Congressional aides said.
Mr. Brown, for his part, favors a single-warhead mobile missile, the Midgetman, as well the Stealth bomber, but he would cancel the program to put the multi-warhead MX missiles on rail cars, saving roughly $4 billion.
In April 1989, Mr. Cheney canceled the program to save money.
When ABC, understandably, declined to cancel the program, the Pythons decided to make a federal case out of it.
The report, to be issued Monday by the Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress, urges the Obama administration to cancel the program, which pays bonuses to health insurance companies caring for millions of Medicare beneficiaries.
At that point NIH will decide whether to cancel the program or broaden it to include all study sections.
The White House wanted to cancel the program started under President George W. Bush to send astronauts back to the moon, and scale back the agency's role in designing rockets and spacecraft.
"And when I started to run, when he talked to me on the phone that night, he said, 'If you run, we're going to have to cancel the program.'" Lewis -- who in 2011 tried to run against Republican incumbent Dawn Addiego, reportedly a friend of Christie's -- eventually withdrew from the Senate race when a court determined he didn't meet a residency requirement.
A major Armenian lobbying group, the Armenian National Committee of America, has also asked PBS to cancel the program, which was produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting to accompany a new one-hour documentary, "The Armenian Genocide," scheduled to be shown on April 17.
The government is asking the bank to pay to cancel the program, but the bank says it believes it should pay nothing, according to the three people briefed on the negotiations.
"The Nightly Show" underperformed in ratings and Comedy Central executives chose to cancel the program rather than work with Wilmore to boost viewership through marketing synergies.
